The UK has an exceptionally rich literary tradition: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Kipling, Hardy, Orwell, Wells and Auden all continue to have a global audience. Contemporary writing has many cultural influences. Writers such as James Kelman, Caryl Philips, Jeannette Winterson, Salman Rushdie, Irvine Welsh and Benjamin Zephaniah are changing perceptions about the use of language and dialect in writing, drawing from many influences to produce challenging and innovative work.
There are over 200 annual literary prizes in the UK, offered for many different categories of work. The Booker Prize, for UK and Commonwealth citizens, is the most prestigious, although the Whitbread Prize (for UK citizens) and the Orange Prize for Fiction (for any woman writing in English) also signify great acclaim.
We promote British and Commonwealth Literature by organising or supporting visits by British and Commonwealth writers to Bosnia and Herzegovina. In co-operation with Casa della Poesia we bring poets from the UK to the Annual Poetry Meetings in honour of late Bosnian poet Izet Sarajlic.; We also take part in European Literary Meetings by bringing UK writers to Sarajevo.; Last year we hosted acclaimed authors: Tony Harrison, John Lanchester, Tim Parks and Judy Benson.
Our Library offers a wide range of British literature in English.
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